Re: st: generating dynamic panel data

The problem biting you is that for the first observation in each panel
_n - 1 evaluates to 0 and any reference to values in observation 0
results in missings. Such missings are then transmitted infectiously
to the entire panel.
Adding
... if _n > 1
will fix that.
Nick
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 6:37 AM, billy mairs <mairs8@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Dear reader, I am having trouble trying to create dynamic panel data in stata.
>
> I want to generate panel data with say n=20, t=5. I want the panel data to be ar(1) and follow the form y(t) = 0.8*y(t-1) + 2*x(t) + u(t), i.e dynamic panel data. x(t) is a standard normally distributed random variable and u(t) is an error term that I can change the distribution of to assess non-normality robustness.It is important that the panels are independent.
>
> This is my attempt so far:
>
> clear all
> set obs 20
> gen i = _n
> gen y = rnormal()
> expand 5
> sort i
> by i: gen t=_n
> gen x = rnormal()
> gen u = rchi2(2)
>
> and then using something like
>
> by i: replace y = 0.8*y[_n-1] + 2*x + u
>
> in the hope that I have 20 independent cross sections that follow an ar(1) process. However the above method will generate missing values. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
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